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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
Writer
Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
Soul
Closed
Little
Imagination
Thing
Sleep
Mind
Alone
Think
Death
Thinking
Spirit
Littles
Feared
Body
Sleeping

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